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  <title>Let's bring this home, decentralize media sharing, and save the kittens.</title>
  <meta name="date" content="2012-11-08 12:00" />
  <meta name="author" content="Christopher Allan Webber" />
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    <img src="/blog_images/in_your_internet_decentralizing_your_medias.png"
         alt="In your internet, decentralizing your medias!" />
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  <i>Joar Wandborg and Aeva Ntsc of MediaGoblin and Jaisen Mathai of
  <a href="http://theopenphotoproject.org/">OpenPhoto</a> working
  together on the future of decentralized media sharing</i>
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<p>So we're nearing the end of our campaign.  We've done a good job so
far!  We're at about 40 thousand dollars now.  Our campaign goal says
60 thousand... we don't have to make that full amount, but we should
take this opportunity to get as far as we can get!  I think 42
thousand is a good and realistic number at this point.  If we can get
past 42 thousand, MediaGoblin might not be the total answer
to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty-two#The_Hitchhiker.27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy">life,
the universe, and everything</a>, but it'll be a good sign that it's
part of it!</p>

<p>Speaking about answers to things, I wanted to take a moment to talk
about the opportunity at hand and why this all matters.  We've spoken
before about this a lot already... we've talked about
<a href="http://mediagoblin.org/news/youtube-catastrophe.html">why
decentralization and federation matters</a>, we've talked about
<a href="http://mediagoblin.org/news/fsws-2012-wrap-up.html">what
we're going to do to make that happen</a>, we've spoken about the
<a href="http://mediagoblin.org/news/mediagoblin-1.0-checklist.html">roadmap
to 1.0</a>, and even a glimpse of the
<a href="http://mediagoblin.org/news/coming-up-in-0.3.2.html">features
coming in the next release</a>.  So that's the world we're building,
that's the future ahead!</p>

<p>But what about you?  Why does it matter from <i>your</i> end?  What
can you do to help?  Well, there are a lot of ways to help
MediaGoblin... we have a huge task ahead of us, and of
course <a href="/pages/join.html">joining our community</a> and
helping build that future is really important.  But right now there's
an easy way that you can help right now, right this instant: and
that's to <a href="/pages/campaign.html">contribute to the
campaign</a>.</p>

<p>Your donation means a lot here.  Whatever you can give, it helps.
Even with as many awesome volunteers as we have... in
fact, <i>especially</i> with as many awesome volunteers as we
have!... coordinating MediaGoblin, building a coherent and beautiful
media publishing experience, requires a ton of dedicated work,
planning, engineering, and communication.  By donating to the campaign
you are helping power a year full of dedicated focus to keeping that
machinery smooth and easy running so that no patch or contribution is
left behind.  There's a lot of grit-work involved in making the
world's most beautiful media hosting future come true, and let's face
it!  We're up against some strong, well funded competition.  It's a
tough place, and as we've said in the
<a href="/pages/campaign.html">campaign video</a>, if we don't do
something about it, it could be a
real <a href="http://mediagoblin.org/news/youtube-catastrophe.html">cat-astrophe</a>
(yes, sorry, it's a horrible pun).</p>

<p>But the reason we'll make it is because we are building the right
world, the world of media hosting that the internet <i>needs</i>.  And
we have the internet on our side.  We've got <i>you</i> on our side!</p>

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  <a href="/pages/campaign.html">
    <img src="/blog_images/think_of_the_kittens.png"
         alt="Cats, and a sad internet" />
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<p>So show your support!  Make the web a better place, for you, and
for kittens everywhere!  <a href="/pages/campaign.html">Donate
now!</a></p>

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    <img src="/blog_images/support_mediagoblin-blagpost.png"
         alt="Gavroche imploring you to support mediagoblin!" />
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